Ever building, building to the clouds, still building higher, and never reflecting that the poor narrow basis cannot sustain the giddy tottering column.

Cowards have done good and kind actions, but a coward never pardoned.

Wise to resolve, patient to perform.

The game of life looks cheerful when one carries a treasure safe in his heart.

Satisfy a few to please many is bad.

Power is the most persuasive rhetoric.

Even now, nature is the only flame, on which the poetic spirit feeds; from it alone it draws all its power, to it alone it speaks even in the artificial, in the man engaged in culture.